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Rocks and hard places : the globalization of mining / Roger Moody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moody, Roger, author.
- Series:
- Global issues series (Zed Books)
- Global issues in a changing world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mining corporations--Environmental aspects.
- Mining corporations.
- Mining corporations--Social aspects.
- Environmental degradation--Political aspects.
- Environmental degradation.
- Mines and mineral resources--Environmental aspects.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Sustainable development.
- Environmental management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Other Title:
- Rocks & hard places
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Roger Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of large-scale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North.
- This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Through the mine field
- How the World Bank backs bad miners
- Cursed by resources
- Blood, toil and tears
- The destruction of construction
- Sacrifice areas
- Winning hearts and mines
- No means no!
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611259303
- 9781350222427
- 1350222429
- 9781848137752
- 1848137753
- 9781281259301
- 1281259306
- 9781848131682
- 1848131682
- OCLC:
- 476155737
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